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OCEAN STATE OYSTERS
When Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast last year, most of Rhode Island’s vast shellfish industry was lucky enough to avoid catastrophe--good news for oyster farmers and oyster lovers alike. Jan 1st, 2014
Winter Fishing
As I type this frenzied little bulletin, the sand on my half of the hour glass is draining at an alarming rate, Christmas is bearing down like a big squall chewing up the distance between me and the westward horizon, and somehow none of it is weighing me down: I know I’m far from alone. Partly, it’s easier this time of year because the times when I have to pull lunatic hours at the keyboard, I have none of the usual dread that somewhere at the very second it occurs to me, someone is into a furious hit of fish—that they’re doing it without me. Not this month, not this year: It’s been some time since we had it this bad in a collective way almost from the outset of Month Twelve. The wind, the sleet, snow and the bitterest kind of cold seem to have ushered in an unusually powerful sense that it would be utterly futile to so much as think about finding a reasonable gap between fronts. Fleet-wide—and I’ve talked to enough guys to say this with some certainty—there’s an unusual resignation that as much as we should probably be trying to get the ball rolling on winter codfish, there just wouldn’t be much point in getting pissed off about the immediate upwelling of good reasons we just can’t pull it off.Jan 1st, 2014
Providence Boat Show Will Be Hot in January
Two special activity areas have been incorporated into the show’s floorplan, including a show pavilion that will crown the boat show with special attractions such as chef demonstrations, author appearances and interactive events such as a chance to take a spin on a SURFSET board, a total-body surf trainer designed to simulate the physical demands of surfing without the ocean.Jan 1st, 2014
Rhode Island: A Prime Training Ground for Marine Careers
The ocean is not the only place with perfect storms. That rare combina- tion of circumstances that can produce a radical impact can also happen in a workforce. Take the marine trades, for example. The storm has been brewing for a while: the workforce is graying, and not enough young people Jan 1st, 2014
Fish Focus: Change Course
I am not a fifth-generation fisherman. I have never warped planks to replace the rub rail on a 60-foot wooden dragger. And while I can disassemble just about any ma- rine propulsion system, I’m not aware of a single engine I could put back together in anything close to working order. Hell, when I started out on deck in the mid 1990s, I was a googan’s googan—a guy with all the seafaring aptitude of a three-legged Clydesdale. I mention this because, if I oc- casionally write something that sounds pretty sharp in the nautical department, it reflects something I learned the hard way—something I fought every grain of my personal inclinations to eventually understand.Jan 1st, 2014
RI Fishing Report: Dec 13 2013
Cod Futures Up; Fluke, Sea Bass Troubles on 2014 Horizon Here in the second week of December, the Rhode Island … Dec 13th, 2013
RI Fishing Report: Dec 6 2013
In this, the first week of the winter format for these Friday-morning entries, I had planned to take a preliminary look at the winter cod fishing south and east of Block Island.Dec 6th, 2013
Winter Plans: New Take On Friday Reports
One cruel paradox we fishwriters have learned to accept is that, at least here on the New England tundra, fishermen tend to do the bulk of their most focused and sustained annual reading during the stretch of calendar when there are virtually zero fish in our collective fore. Absent the cast of seasonal migrants that occupy the balance of our living hours not chewed up by work or other obligations such as eating, shaving, collecting toenail clippings, and bathing every other week whether we need it or not, we pursue any and all avenues of recreation we think might help ease the intensifying fish withdrawal symptoms. Among other activities, we use our Dark Months free time to catch up on the fishing magazines that drifted like so many four-square-foot, 50-page newsprint snowflakes where wall meets floor tiles in the bathroom from roughly May through the bitter end of November.Dec 1st, 2013
To Our Readers
As we go to press it’s a beautiful day with temps in the 50’s and smooth seas. We are headed out for what may be the last trip for tautog before we pull the boat. While November delivered the ‘tog, we are moving toward the inevitable - when cod is the order of the day. Unlike so many of our charter captain friends who are making plans to take their businesses south for the winter, we are hunkering down.Dec 1st, 2013